Vespa
tropica (Linnaeus, 1758)
First name: Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758
Greater banded Hornet
Image: Sirinee Poonchaisri
Head, thorax and gaster with erected stiff hairs from each punctures. Head
as wide as thorax, dark brown or brownish red; compound eyes
kidney-liked with three ocelli; antennae dark brown and
last segment pale brown; clypeus black or brownish red
with black margin posteriorly, many punctures on the clypeus
actually coarse and strong, posterior side of clypeus with blunt triangular
lobes; mandibles dark brown to black. Pronotum, mesonotum and propodeum
dark brown to black, propodeum usually smooth and impunctate, the median
groove short and deep at base, barely continued to the apex of the propodeum.
Legs dark brown or black, reddish brown towards the tarsi. Wings dark
fuscous and pale brown along their apical margins; tegulae dark brown. Gaster
usually dark brown to black; the second segment bright yellow or yellow
orange.
This species is a subterranean wasp. Adults are medium
to large sized, dark brown to black and yellowish orange marked on
the gaster. This species is very similar to Vespa affinis, but easily distinguished
from the latter by bright yellow or yellow orange at the second
gastral segment.
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